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Event date: 2024-05-14

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The annual contemporary music concert organized by the Institute of Music of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zielona Góra has already become our tradition. This time we will present works of contemporary composers who represent Zielona Góra, Poznań and Szczecin. The composers are lecturers of the University of Zielona Góra, the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań and the Szczecin Art Academy.

The concert program encompasses instrumental works for cello and piano, for piano solo, as well as songs based on poems by Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The titles of the compositions refer to colours, shadows and poetic inspirations. The performers also represent all the centres:  Milena Palkaj – piano (Szczecin), Wojciech Kaszuba – cello, Maria Koszewska-Wajdzik – piano (Poznań), Maciej Straburzyński – bass-baritone and Monika Hanus-Kobus – piano (Zielona Góra).

Event date: 2024-05-13

Between the 13^th of May and the 9^th of June, 2024, Sinfonia Varsovia musicians will tour Warsaw, performing as part of the 24^th "Sinfonia Varsovia To Its City" Festival together with invited guests on six stages of the capital.

The programme includes premieres, symphonic and chamber concerts, events for the youngest audience, and new music formats. Cellist Jakob Kullberg, violinist Jakub Haufa and singers Iwona Sobotka, Agnieszka Rehlis, Tadeusz Szlenkier and Tomasz Konieczny will perform. The orchestra will be conducted by Henrik Nánási, Christopher Austin, Daniel Mieczkowski and Joolz Gale.

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More: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The theme of the 3^rd SAXandVILLAS International Composition Competition, organized by Villa Lentz in Poland, Villa la Padula in Italy and Escola Artística Do Conservatório De Música Calouste Gulbenkian, was works for chamber ensembles with saxophone. After careful analysis of the submitted scores, the jury selected three winners: A Pole and two Italians.

First place went to Damian Dziweńka for his piece 'In the name of land', (pseudonym: Naard). 
Second place went to Michele Allegro for his composition 'New York Tales', (pseudonym: Irese90). 
Roberto Maria Cipollina became third for the track 'Apparuit', (alias: YKN22).

Additional information: https://willa-lentza.pl/strona/365-SAXandVILLAS_2024_ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The names of the winners of one of the most prestigious competitions for young cellists under the age of 30 have been announced! Following the final auditions of the 12^th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition, organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance, 4 main prizes, 2 special regulation prizes and 1 special mention were awarded on the 11^th of May 2024. The award gala will also take place at the Warsaw Philharmonic on the 12^th of May at 6 p.m. Admission is ticketed.

Here are the names of the winners who will attend the Gala:

1st Prize - Tae-Yeon Kim (South Korea)
2nd Prize - Maria Leszczynska-Thieu (Poland)
3rd Prize - Antoni Wrona (Poland)
4th Prize - Gustaw Bafeltowski (Poland)
Distinction - Esteban Jiménez Suárez (Spain).

Competition website: https://www.lutoslawski-cello.art.pl/ 

On the 9^th of May 2024 the Jury, consisting of: Krzysztof Baculewski (chairman), Agnieszka Draus, Monika Kędziora, Mieczysław Kominek and Jerzy Stankiewicz, awarded the 2024 Annual Awards of the Polish Composers' Union.

The award winners are:

Marcel Chyrzyński - for his outstanding work as a composer recognized in musical circles in Europe, Asia and the Americas; for his artistic and organisational direction of the Cracow International Composers' Festival; and for his many years of activity and camaraderie in the Polish Composers' Union.

Katarzyna Dadak-Kozicka - for her long-standing inspiration of the musicological and composer community to joint activities for the benefit of Polish music at home and abroad, reconstruction of the history of the Polish Composers' Union in the book Defenders of the Entrusted Good, renewal of the union's scientific journals: "Polish Yearbook of Musicology" and "Musicology Today".

Violetta Przech - for her fundamental monograph on the life and work of Zbigniew Bargielski, to which she devoted many years of her work and professional life.